Investigating the role of turbulence in the interstellar medium in z ∼ 3 dusty star-forming galaxies using kpc-resolution ALMA dust and gas maps
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2026
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Abstract We present ALMA high-resolution ($\sim 0.25^{\prime \prime }/2\, \rm {kpc}$) CO(5–4) and CO(4–3) observations of three z ∼ 3 submillimetre-selected dusty galaxies from the ALESS survey. These data complement existing [sub]-kpc scale ALMA 870μm continuum imaging and JWST NIRCam and MIRI imaging from the ALESS-JWST program, allowing us to trace the molecular gas, dust-obscured star formation, and stellar populations on similar spatial scales. We spectroscopically confirm that two of the sources lie at the same redshift and are likely interacting. We find that the molecular-gas distribution broadly follows the dusty star-forming structures seen in the 870μm dust continuum imaging, but that the gas reservoirs are significantly more extended than the dust emission with a spatial extent comparable to the rest-frame near-infrared stellar emission. By modeling the kinematics for the two highest signal-to-noise sources, we find that the galaxies are well-fit by rotating disc models with high ratios of ordered to random motion ($V_{\rm {max}}\, /\, \overline{\sigma }=5\pm 1$ and 6 ± 1), although smaller-scale kinematic deviations cannot be ruled out at the current sensitivity and spatial resolution. Finally, utilizing the high-resolution 870μm dust continuum and CO data, we investigate star-formation scaling relations on kpc-scales in these high-redshift galaxies. Assuming a constant CO-to-H2 conversion factor and excitation ratio, we find that the data are offset from theoretical star-formation relation predictions that do not take turbulence into account, but consistent with gravo-turbulent models, thereby suggesting that turbulence plays a central role in regulating star formation at high redshift.
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| Authors | B A Westoby, J A Hodge, Piyush Sharda, P E Mancera Piña, M Rybak, Elisabete da Cunha, J Li, I Smail, A. M. Swinbank, A Battisti, L A Boogaard, W N Brandt, G Calistro Rivera, Chian-Chou Chen, P Cox, M Cracraft, H Dannerbauer, Roberto Decarli, T R Greve, S Kendrew, K Knudsen, Cheng-Lin Liao, Joshiwa van Marrewijk, O Nayak, M Neeleman, Lucie E. Rowland, E Schinnerer, F Walter, J L Wardlow, A Weiss, P van der Werf |
| Journal | monthly notices of the royal astronomical society |
| Year | 2026 |
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10.1093/mnras/stag1274
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